One problem I have had in the past, I forget which car it was on, but the white
wire for the fuel pump would come undone from a weakened butt connector (the
original black ones). When it came off, the car would run till it ran out the
fuel
in the bowls. The weak connector was on the right side of the car, where the
tail
harness hooked into the main harness. Look up under the dash right next to the
door
pillar
Kendel McCarley wrote:
> I've disconnected it at every possible place. When it decides not to
> run, fuel barely makes it out of the pump onto the ground. It will not
> build up enough pressure to push through the filter. I can take the
> filter off and watch the fuel go up the hose a little and then back down
> the hose a little with each stroke (that can be seconds apart). Taking
> the filter out of the line had no effect because there wasn't enough
> pressure with the slowly going pump to push fuel even that little bit up
> hill.
>
> Again, I've hooked up the inlet and outlet directly at the pump to make
> sure neither the gas tank or the fuel line was the problem.
>
> It's not the pumps. I dissassembled one to make sure its screen wasn't
> clogged. It checked out fine on an external battery. The second pump
> came out of my MGB that's not giving me a lick of trouble (and is for
> sale here in Tucson!).
>
> I'd finally guessed electrical, which is why I rigged the bypass wires.
> If it wasn't for the lack of fuel in the carbs, I'd be thinking coil
> from the way it's running (the more it runs the less time it'll go).
> Sure don't want to have to yank the ignition switch to test that out.
>
> - K
>
> fwiw, the major task this weekend was to put in a ceramic floor in the
> kitchen. Grinding down the high spots on the poorly poured concrete
> (must be Chinese concrete) caused a lot of mess and was taking way too
> long. I was wishing I could take the whole damn floor and just throw it
> on the... uh, floor. Finally, I got out the air powered chisel. What
> were high spots are now low spots to be filled!
>
> Geoff Branch wrote:
>
> >Have you disconnected the fuel line just before the carbs, stuck it in a can,
> >and turned on the fuel pump to see if you have a nice steady stream up to
>this
> >point
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